Thread: Police shoot 15yo boy in Melbourne

Originally Posted by spudboy

15yo boy armed with 2 meat cleavers.

Anyway - bad for everyone. The poor blokes who had to shoot. Family & friends, etc.

Sometimes you just gotta do .... what ya gotta do

NQA

Respect your position, but...

Used a handgun when you're under the pump? Believe me, it is NOT really easy to "hit a leg".

The issue's much more complex than that.

Pete

Originally Posted by mike 90 RR

Sometimes you just gotta do .... what what ya gotta do

NQA

one less junky on the streets

for a 15yr old to be carrying 2 meat cleavers around he's on something

In hindsight alternative actions are easier said than done.

As a matter of fact they did use pepper spray twice on the boy with nil effect.

So when are the riots starting?
(like in Greece!)


Geoff

Second that. Most people are unable to distinguish what between happens in Hollywood and what happens in reality.


Hollywood: Good cop with crappy handgun shoots out kneecap and then disarms agressor whilst sipping a latte. No sweat.

Reality: Good cop with crappy handgun is ****ting bricks, eyes are wide and they try and decide wether they are going to kill someone, or be killed themselves - good cop pulls trigger and spends next month in counselling.

~alternatively~

Good cop shoots kid in leg - misses. Good cop murdered by angry kid with two knives who then stabs innocent witnesses. Public demand to know why officer did not use weapon to defend themselves and public safety.


I fail to see the issue. It is TRAGIC that the kid died, but if you try and knife coppers, that will happen.


From what I am hearing here, they didn't just "pepper spray him twice" THEY EMPTIED TWO WHOLE CANS OF OC ON HIM.

It's a very sad outcome and I'm sure being tazered would have been a better outcome if police had that option, but i do think the following facts are relevant.

The cops had already used 2 cans of capsicum spray on the kid; and
3 cops all felt it necessary, at the same time, to discharge their firearms in his direction.

If 3 cops all felt it was appropriate to shoot him, he must have been acting in a very irrational manner and been considered a very serious threat.

Police are trained to aim at the largest target as apparantly people are not very accurate when shooting hand guns under pressure at a moving target.

Well I do agree with all of the above comments, and that if you try and go a policeman with a cleaver you are on borrowed time.

Maybe because he was only 15 it just seemed worse - just a kid. Bad decision to pick up those knives.....